TORONTO: Waabi, a pioneer in generative AI for the bodily world, has introduced a strategic partnership with Volvo Autonomous Options to collectively develop and deploy self-driving vehicles. This collaboration combines Waabi’s progressive AI know-how with Volvo’s experience in automation and security innovation, paving the way in which for a brand new period of safer, extra environment friendly, and sustainable freight transportation.
The partnership will combine Waabi’s digital driver system, the Waabi Driver, into the Volvo VNL Autonomous, Volvo’s autonomous truck with redundant programs for enabling protected autonomous operations. The Volvo VNL Autonomous will likely be produced at Volvo’s flagship New River Valley meeting plant and relies on Volvo’s autonomous know-how platform.
“At Waabi, we consider that vertically integrating next-generation AI know-how instantly into an OEM’s automobile manufacturing is the trail ahead to carry protected, sturdy autonomous autos to the highway, at scale,” stated Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi. “Volvo’s management in security, dedication to excellence in engineering, and funding in forward-looking innovation makes them an excellent associate to appreciate the way forward for self-driving vehicles in every single place.”
This collaboration goals to remodel the $1 trillion North American freight {industry} by enabling the deployment of autonomous vehicles that redefine security and effectivity requirements. Waabi and Volvo are dedicated to creating autonomous transportation options that prioritize security, effectivity, and sustainability to deal with the challenges going through immediately’s transportation {industry}.
Waabi’s next-generation AV2.0 strategy, primarily based on an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI mannequin, permits autonomous vehicles that may safely generalize to totally different eventualities on the highway. This innovation, built-in with Volvo’s industry-leading purpose-built autonomous truck, is enabling a protected autonomous resolution to assist broad industrial deployment.
“Waabi is on the forefront of creating self-driving applied sciences leveraging the total energy of AI,” stated Shahrukh Kazmi, Chief Product Officer at Volvo Autonomous Options. “We’re excited to combine Waabi’s cutting-edge know-how into our autonomous truck platform and work collectively to collectively develop a protected, environment friendly, and scalable autonomous transport resolution.”
The partnership is a continuation of Volvo’s collaboration with Waabi over the previous two years, with Volvo Group Enterprise Capital first changing into a strategic investor within the firm in January 2023. The 2 firms have laid the groundwork for the mixing of the Waabi Driver into the Volvo VNL Autonomous and are getting ready for testing in 2025.
About Waabi
Waabi, based by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is pioneering generative AI for the bodily world, first by making use of this know-how to overtake the autonomous trucking {industry}. Waabi is backed by best-in-class buyers throughout the know-how, AI, automotive, logistics, and Canadian innovation ecosystems.